Sentences with phrase «which took over the city»

Charter schools are public schools that use a mix of taxpayer funds and privately raised dollars to run their schools, said Paul Vallas, superintendent of the Recovery School District, which took over the city's worst - performing and flood - wrecked schools.

Not exact matches

The city's Palmer Park Preparatory Academy was recently on the cover of Education Week for becoming a teacher led school in which teachers take over administrative duties.

Then take a gander at this interactive utopia, which lets you mouse over various structures and visual cues to see just what the most livable city in Canada might look like.

Part of that was an ill - fated attempt to take over Circuit City, which went bankrupt soon afterward.

In the city of Mosul, which has been taken over by ISIS, Christians were given a July 19 ultimatum: convert to Islam or be executed.

Usually they were located in what was once a «better part» of New York or some other large city, which had been taken over by recent immigrants.

He went up, John says, «not publicly, but almost in secret,» as if he wished to observe without being observed, taking the temperature of feeling in metropolitan circles.2 But «when the festival was already half over» he was moved to address the crowds in the temple.3 What he said so incensed them that he was in danger of being lynched.4 In the Fourth Gospel this episode is made, after John's manner, the setting for a whole series of dialogues and discourses which are evidently his own composition, though they contain undoubted reminiscences of earlier tradition, but there seems no valid reason to reject his statement that in September or October Jesus was in Jerusalem, and that the reception he met with finally convinced him — whatever premonitions he may previously have entertained — that any advance on the city would meet with implacable hostility.

«The supermarket heavens of my new neighbors,» Jan writes from his suburban apartment in Washington, D.C., «which draw a veil over suffering and therefore make no sense of it or of anything else, take me back to those beautiful, terrible days, when our dear city turned in its sleep and its dreams were dreams of a crucified God.»

There's also Kilby Court, which is open for all ages; but if you're over 21, Urban Lounge takes the cake for coolest Salt Lake City venue by far.

The box - to - box midfielder made his debut for Tottenham during their 4 - 0 win over Stoke City and is expected to be included in the squad which takes on Monaco in the UEFA Champions League this week.

I do not agree that the game away to Man City is the only one in which Arsenal have played with a moire defensive and counter attacking system but we certainly got done over by Chelsea after trying to take the game to them.

Im still upset about the spurs lost, but you can't cry over split milk, its already gone we got ta move on and take every game one at a time starting with leicester city on tuesday, which is a winnable.

The rollover cash wasn't won during the half - time «Take Your Pick» game, which means the prize rolls over to # 1,250 at the Club's Emirates FA Cup Fourth Round match against Birmingham City on Saturday 27 January.

Since taking charge of Leicester City at the end of October which resulted in a comfortable 3 - 0 win over Everton, Claude Puel has picked up 11 points out of a possible 18 as the Foxes currently find themselves in 9th position in the league.

I guess it would be similar to seeing Everton winning the Premier League, which I am sure we would all take over City, Chelsea, Arsenal or Liverpool!

Despite being two points clear of Hull, Newcastle are in such historically bad form that it's hard to see them taking anything from the game against West Ham, which leaves them relying on Hull City to pick up no points at all from their final game, given Hull's +7 goal difference over Newcastle.

The voluntary commitment comes following extensive discussions with The Living Wage Foundation and Steve Rotheram, mayor of the Liverpool city region, which have taken place over recent months.

Twenty - four hours before West Ham gave fourth - placed Man City a run for their money in Manchester, Blackburn were earning themselves a reprieve — a 1 - 0 win over Bolton at home was Blackburn's first for ten games and in turn took them three - points closer to safety, where they are now within two - points of that magic 40 - points which more times than not ensures survival.

That was followed up by a tighter 2 - 1 victory over Swansea in which mid-season arrival Gabriel Jesus took the plaudits for his late winner, while Bournemouth also fell in a 2 - 0 City win.

Both need improvements over the summer but Manchester City have the securing power to take apart an Arsenal defence which is floundering badly right now.

Leicester City on the other hand also have a full strength squad too choose from and we can expected Claudio Ranieri to field a similar starting lineup which will take the field against Manchester United over the weekend in community shield game.

In 1969, the Naperville Park District, which was organized in 1966, assumed responsibility for Centennial Beach, taking it over from the City of Naperville.

City parents support the country's largest baby expo — the New York Baby Show, which takes place over a weekend in May each year at Pier 92 in Manhattan — as well as five other trade shows.

«Solidarity, right now, has taken on a new meaning,» agreed Jahmila Joseph, Assistant Associate Director of DC 37, the city's largest municipal public employee union which counts over 51 local unions and over 125,000 members.

Berry was a founder of the Alliance against Urban 4 × 4s, which began in Camden in 2003 and became a national campaign demanding measures to stop 4 × 4s (or sport utility vehicles) «taking over our cities».

After years of being the co-CEO with his father, Mr. Speyer took over as sole CEO of his family's real estate company, which is one of the biggest landlords in the city.

The first metro mayor for Liverpool City Region will be taking on strategic powers over an area which has many of the amenities and much of the physical infrastructure that makes it primed for growth.

Nurses from Kaleida stepped in and took over duties in the Buffalo Public Schools as part of a deal worked out in 2005, after funding for school nurses was eliminated by Erie County, which had previously provided the service to city schools.

The OTB plan, offered by Gov. David Paterson, calls for the New York Racing Association, which operates tracks including Saratoga, and other creditors to take over New York City OTB's phone and Internet betting operations.

«I voted against the last three budgets for the city of Albany because they contained massive structural deficits, which are similar to the one we will face next year, which will be over $ 20 million and I would like to avoid having decisions where we take our most vulnerable citizens and punish them through the budget process.»

He called the shooting death of the cops the «direct spinoff» of anti-police-brutality protests that the sympathetic mayor had allowed to take over city streets, blamed marijuana — which, thanks to the mayor, you can now carry a larger quantity of without getting locked up — for a spike in murders, has proudly declared stop - and - frisk isn't going away, and has repeatedly broken with the mayor on the subject of how many more cops the city needs (the mayor has said none, the police commissioner now says at least 1,000).

The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, which represents about 24,000 cops, hired the consulting firm Tusk Strategies (run by Bradley Tusk, 2009 campaign manager for ex-NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg) to take on Mayor Bill de Blasio over raises and pensions for city cops in the future.

State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli won't rule out the concept of super control boards, which would take the reigns of spending from troubled cities or counties, and allow the state to take over their financial operations.

Tenney said she supports taking a look at the federal background check system and argued that the shooting should not change the dynamics of the debate over gun control in her district which encompasses cities like Utica, Rome and Binghamton.

The plan calls for Parks to take over other city - owned land closer to the waterfront so the DOT could build a 12 - foot one - way convertible bus lane, which would switch directions for the morning and evening rush - hours, Englert said.

If Syracuse does not get its finances in order, it could be subject to a state fiscal control board, which Maroun said would take power away from the mayor and the council over the operational expenses of the city.

After years of losses, the state took over OTB from the city, which was threatening to shut it down for good.

The Citizens» Budget Commission's Carol Kellerman expressed alarm over the size of the city's municipal workforce, which now exceeds 327,000 workers and which has grown by 9 percent since January 2014, when de Blasio took office.

The park takes over the former U.S. Navy Homeport which was put out to developers by the city in 2003, 10 years after it was decommissioned by the Navy, the Staten Island Advance reported.

«You're taking away all the city assets and then you're saddling the city which includes property owners, voters, business owners with all the debt which is over a billion dollars.»

The release of the report, which specifically highlights the decline of the manufacturing industry outside of New York City over the past two decades, comes as Democrats gear up for an election season in which they will again try to take back control of the Senate.

The protest, which at times grew tense and disorganized with residents shouting over elected officials, comes on the same week the city announced the number of homeless people has grown to 60,000 people, an increase of nearly 10,000 since de Blasio took office and the highest it has been since the city began keeping count.

Sources declined to comment on which office Saujani was eying or whether she has made up her mind about running city - wide, but many have speculated that she is looking to take over from de Blasio if he indeed steps down.

I've been also taking long and lots of walks all over the city and here're some photos of hidden gems of Sibenik city, which is also a place where new season of Game of Thrones has been filmed.

Parikh returned to India in 1990 to take over merchandising, marketing, finance, operations and strategic direction of the country's first designer multi-brand store, the Mumbai institution Ensemble, which recently expanded into the city's Kala Ghoda district and was designed by local star architect Bijoy Jain.

It takes about 2 minutes to create a basic profile which will allow you to then look over the site and search for members in your city.

As the Chinese government gradually relaxed its control over urban migration — by loosening the restrictions of the 1958 Hukou System, which afforded social benefits only to those who could prove identification from the local province — more and more individuals have taken advantage of new economic opportunities by migrating to cities.

The film has stirred up controversy over its portrayal of the city from which it takes its name.

Yesterday represented an important moment in history with the March For Our Lives which took places in a lot of cities all over the world.

Jeanine (Kate Winslet), the leader of «Erudite» (intelligent people — i.e. villains), has taken over the city and is searching for individuals who are «Divergent» (they have qualities belonging to more than one faction), because one is needed in order to open a mysterious box which contains a vital plot device of some sort.